Publication
Consistent Health Coverage and Care: The Foundation for Health and Wellbeing
January 12, 2026
Related Areas of Focus: Child Welfare, Economic Security, Health & Wellbeing, Immigration, LGBTQIA+, Work Requirements, Youth and Young Adults
Consistent health coverage is essential for children, young people, and families to stay healthy and thrive. The policy series Consistent Health Coverage and Care: The Foundation for Health and Wellbeing advocates for eliminating barriers and reimagining health policy to ensure reliable, affordable care for all, highlighting concrete policy solutions to protect continuity of coverage, particularly for children, young adults, foster youth, and immigrant families, as the foundation of a healthier and more equitable future.
Consistent Coverage and Care are Foundational to Health
Good health and wellbeing are essential to living fulfilling and productive lives. When parents are healthy, they are better able to meet their families’ daily needs and care for themselves and their children—supporting children to grow into healthy adults. CSSP’s new policy brief series, Consistent Health Coverage and Care, examines how policy choices shape whether children, young people, and families can access health coverage and care they can rely on. Each brief explores the barriers children, youth, and families face — and what policymakers can do right now to protect consistency in coverage and care.
Read more in the blog, Consistency in Health Coverage and Care: Why It Matters for Young People and Families, by Shadi Houshyar, Director of Health Justice Policy.
Individual Briefs
There are four briefs in the Consistent Health Coverage and Care policy brief series. Click each thumbnail below to dive into one of the topics.
About the Author
Juliana Zhou
Policy Analyst
Shadi Houshyar
Director of Health Justice Policy
Elisa Minoff
Director of Economic Security, Senior Fellow in Policy History
Alexandra (Alex) Citrin, MSW, MPP
Director of Family Autonomy and Child Welfare Policy
